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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] xfs: Pull EFI/EFD handling out from under the AIL lock
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 06:38:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101202113849.GA21365@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101202012841.GL16922@dastard>

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 12:28:41PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> >  - there is a behaviour change about the xfs_trans_del_item call
> >    in xfs_efi_item_unpin - before it was protected by the
> >    XFS_EFI_CANCELED which was never set, and now it's not.
> 
> XFS_EFI_CANCELED has not been set in the code base since
> xfs_efi_cancel() was removed back in 2006 by commit
> 065d312e15902976d256ddaf396a7950ec0350a8 ("[XFS] Remove unused
> iop_abort log item operation), and even then xfs_efi_cancel() was
> never called. I haven't tracked it back further than that (beyond
> git history), but handling of efis in cancelled transactions has
> been broken for a long time.
> 
> Basically, when we get an IOP_UNPIN(lip, 1); call from
> xfs_trans_uncommit() (i.e. remove == 1), if we don't free the log
> item descriptor we leak it. IOWs, the new behaviour introduced in
> this patch is actually the correct behaviour.

Maybe fix this issue first in a separate patch, instead of hiding it
in a bigger one.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-02 11:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-29  1:12 [PATCH 0/8] xfs: AIL lock contention reduction V2 Dave Chinner
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 1/8] xfs: Pull EFI/EFD handling out from under the AIL lock Dave Chinner
2010-11-30 20:17   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-02  1:28     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-02 11:38       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-12-03  5:24         ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 2/8] xfs: clean up xfs_ail_delete() Dave Chinner
2010-11-30 20:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 3/8] xfs: bulk AIL insertion during transaction commit Dave Chinner
2010-11-30 22:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-02  1:32     ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs: reduce the number of AIL push wakeups Dave Chinner
2010-11-30 20:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 5/8] xfs: consume iodone callback items on buffers as they are processed Dave Chinner
2010-11-30 20:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 6/8] xfs: remove all the inodes on a buffer from the AIL in bulk Dave Chinner
2010-12-06 14:33   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-12-07  3:44     ` Dave Chinner
2010-12-07  7:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-29  1:12 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs: use AIL bulk delete function to implement single delete Dave Chinner
2010-12-06 14:37   ` Christoph Hellwig

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